Adaption to Climate Change
- Created by: MrsFredWeasley15
- Created on: 26-09-17 11:10
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- Adaption to Climate Change
- Reducing risk from rising sea levels
- Thames Barrier has been closed 100+ times since it was built, 1982, to stop tidal surges
- Barrier was designed to be breached every 1,000 years. Rise in sea level lowers this to 100 years.
- Managing water supply
- Londoners consume 167 litres of water a day
- National average water consumption is 146 litres.
- Reducing water demand
- Mayor of London developed a Water Strategy to reduce London's water demand
- By 2030, all London homes should have been offered a free retrofit package of water-efficient devices
- Increasing supply of water
- Thames Water opened a desalination plant in Beckton in 2010 to increase water supply
- Water is taken from the River Thames at low tide
- Reverse osmosis is used to produce drinking water for 400,000 homes
- Plant requires lots of energy so carbon emissions need to be offset by a biodiesel electricity plant.
- Londoners consume 167 litres of water a day
- Change in Agricultural systems
- Moving production to another location due to changing temperatures and extreme weather
- Increasing irrigation in areas due to changing rain
- Changing the crops and varieties grown and time of year they are planted.
- Drought-resistant crops
- Switching to livestock production which tends to have more guaranteed returns
- The cost of adapting to climate change is more difficult for poorer farmers
- Reducing risk from rising sea levels
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